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by im_down_w_otp 19d ago
What it would look like, at the barest minimum, would be the Fed rightly and with receipts calling out the fact that they’re a monetary policy function, and that the current inflationary problems aren’t a monetary one, so if the U.S. would
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by im_down_w_otp 19d ago
You’re describing only one flavor of inflation. What the Fed is supposed to care about is price stability, and lots of things influence prices, and not all of them are money supply and/or new money supply correspondent. We saw this dur
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by im_down_w_otp 19d ago
It bugs me that the Fed has no mechanism to really deal with supply-shock driven inflation. Prices are shooting up, but not strongly correlated to money supply at the moment. They’re shooting up because there are a dozen or more entirely ca
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by im_down_w_otp 3mo ago
Is there an easy way to “reverse” the effects here? For example, on the “Jelly Button” I don’t want the part I press on to get bigger. I want it to get smaller and “inflate” the other parts of the controls that aren’t under my finger.
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by im_down_w_otp 3mo ago
Its zeitgeist appeal has been stuck for like 20 years. The problem with it is that unlike sell-side mortgage fraud, self-driving cars, crypto, and current AI… quantum computing doesn’t have a simple, approachable, mass appeal parlour trick
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by im_down_w_otp 3mo ago
I’m annoyed that games I play use BattleEye and the use of BattleEye prevents me from being able to switch over to CachyOS on our family gaming PC+TV setup in the play room. Doubly so because BattleEye appears to do absolutely nothing to pr
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by im_down_w_otp 6mo ago
Apparently it takes $17M and a whole team full of people to do what one guy with a chip on his shoulder could do for free.
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by im_down_w_otp 9mo ago
This makes absolutely no sense as a policy. First, there have been huge numbers of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. that Americans simply didn’t want to do, so adding more manufacturing jobs they also don’t want to do isn’t going to help the
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by im_down_w_otp 9mo ago
I meant the other way. I would switch over to playing something like Destiny on Steam on my PC and just use the Windows Xbox app for joining chat parties with my friends, but if I am playing on PC using a Controller, I’m going to end up mat
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by im_down_w_otp 9mo ago
The controller design/feel and the more seamless/intuitive online play & party handling kept me on the Xbox side of the fence for a looooooong time. That said, if I didn’t have to re-buy a bunch of content I already own and if
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by im_down_w_otp 9mo ago
> When I teach programming, some students, when stuck, will start flailing around - deleting random lines of code, changing call order, adding more functions, etc - and just hoping one of those things will “fix it” eventually. That sou
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by im_down_w_otp 10mo ago
I often consider how many total human lifetimes must have been spent on nothing other than dealing with and/or mitigating something as seemingly banal as Python versioning & dependency management or line ending encoding snafus. Aft
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by im_down_w_otp 10mo ago
The later PowerCenter Pro’s could run with a 60 MHz FSB whereas the PowerTower Pro’s were usually 45-50 MHz FSB. There are a variety of tasks where my PowerCenter Pro 240 outruns my PowerTower Pro 250 for precisely that reason.
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by im_down_w_otp 10mo ago
Nah, the whole second-Earth, terraforming nonsense is pure rationalization for whatever they want to do. If they weren’t using that as a post hoc justification, they’d just land on something else.
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by im_down_w_otp 11mo ago
Never denied eh? Interesting. I had an MRI denied for a partial pectoral rupture. Which was a routine diagnostic as a precursor to open shoulder surgery to determine the extent and location of the rupture to figure out if surgery was absolu
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by im_down_w_otp 11mo ago
This helps with the denials how exactly? You can pay a lot of money in premiums, have a $0 deductible, and now OoP maximum, and still end up having claims denied.
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
I'm not making a statement about what should be done with guns. I'm making a statement about a person experiencing the consequences of their stated position. If he'd staked out a position on the necessity of compelling everyo
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
The Bicyclopedia seems to think that the frame is the most expensive part of the bicycle. The infernal suspension forks on 3 out of 4 of the bikes in my garage would beg to differ, both in upfront cost and ongoing maintenance.
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
I think people are ideologically aligned with the mission today. It's just that grifting off yet-another-hype-cycle is the mission.
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
That stinks. I'm sorry. The founders could have taken part of the proceeds to at least adjust your upside with a transaction bonus. It's pretty easy to do.
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
Erlang's BEAM, assuming no chicanery of NIFs, will use reduction counting to eventually yield a scheduler to make sure other Erlang processes get execution time. This gives you kind of a "will eventually happen" property. It
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
Sweet baby Jesus, please make it rain potatoes!
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
I replaced it with insatiable yearning. It's not as good, but it's all I've got.
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
Both the single header and the zero-allocation callouts can be desirable qualities for something used in an embedded (as in classical MCU-shaped) context. edit: Seeing that it's also C99 makes me think that embedded applications might
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
"passionate about aviation" and "passionate about nice UX" definitely described Noah and the rest of the team! Honestly, I don't remember Re: NSDate. It was many jobs and Dante's levels of burnout ago. :-) What
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
Hey! I used to work for the company that makes that logbook software. That was a great job. The CEO was an amateur pilot himself and really, really loved software product design. It's been over a decade, but it's cool to see that
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
Bitcask, now there's a blast from the Basho past. It always bugged me that no good secondary indexing strategy was built to make using Bitcask viable for more use cases. Everyone always wanted to use the LevelDB backend just to get at
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
Fancy!
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
The CNC router's firmware? The CNC controller itself is dumb as hell. It's connected via serial to an old offline computer that's only job is to pipe G-code over RS-232. Not even to "load a program" to hold in memor
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by im_down_w_otp 1y ago
I love this so much. This, this right here is why I still visit Hacker News. I'm going to use this today and pave a path to my CNC router to make it stupidly easy to generate these plates on-demand.

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